Stranded

If there’s one thing you can learn from the Internet, it’s that someone else always has the same idea as you. Jeff Jr. was originally created to be the neighborhood menace — but not your average Dennis the Menace and Alvin-type menace (who has been lovingly homaged in Jeff Jr’s costume). His goal was to terrorize as many people as he could, while breaking a few laws in the process.

Turns out later that Hank of Addanac City fits this very bill. Yes, his comic come out a year after this one, but he had managed to take the idea and run with it. Out of fear of looking like a copycat, I slowly let Jeff Jr. become more of a background character, who does a few pranks every now and then. One day I’d love to give him a bigger role. We’ll see…

Also, get a hold of that rotary phone in the original. I’ve been drawing those as late as 2011. It’s incredibly antiquated (and has been for decades), but it just has that charm to it, y’know?

On both sites, it is the lowest rated film in the Star Wars film series (not including the animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars film). Many aspects of the scripting were criticized, especially the character of Jar Jar Binks , who was regarded by many members of the older fan community as toyetic — purely a merchandising opportunity rather than a serious character in the film.

Episode I, The Phantom Menace “I have a bad feeling about this,” says the young Obi-Wan Kenobi (played by Ewan McGregor) in Star Wars: Episode I, The Phantom Menace as he steps off a spaceship and into the most anticipated cinematic event… well, ever. He might as well be speaking for the legions of fans of the original episodes in the Star Wars saga who can’t help but secretly ask themselves: Sure, this is Star Wars, but is it my Star Wars? The original elevated moviegoers’ expectations so high that it would have been impossible for any subsequent film to meet them. And as with all the Star Wars movies, The Phantom Menace features inexplicable plot twists, a fistful of loose threads, and some cheek-chewing dialogue. Han Solo’s swagger is sorely missed, as is the pervading menace of heavy-breather Darth Vader. There is still way too much quasi-mystical mumbo jumbo, and some of what was fresh about Star Wars 22 years earlier feels formulaic. Yet there’s much to admire. The special effects are stupendous; three worlds are populated with a mélange of creatures, flora, and horizons rendered in absolute detail. The action and battle scenes are breathtaking in their complexity. And one particular sequence of the film–the adrenaline-infused pod race through the Tatooine desert–makes the chariot race in Ben-Hur look like a Sunday stroll through the park.